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Grant ReeherAs Syracuse Stage prepares to open its new season, it’s also welcoming new leadership. This week, Grant Reeher speaks with Jill Anderson, Syracuse Stage’s new Managing Director, and Bob Hupp, the new Artistic Director. They discuss the stage, and what place theater has in the community. Jill Anderson and Bob Hupp on the Campbell Conversationshttp://wrvo.org/post/jill-anderson-and-bob-hupp-campbell-conversations
93057 as http://wrvo.orgSat, 03 Sep 2016 09:45:00 +0000Jill Anderson and Bob Hupp on the Campbell ConversationsTom Magnarelli For the last five years, the Redhouse Arts Center has partnered with a Syracuse nonprofit to expose high school students to theatrical productions with professional actors. Students are using the lessons they learn from being in "Dreamgirls" this season and applying them to the real world. In the musical “Dreamgirls,” a female singing group from Chicago in the 1960s tries to make it big. The story is modeled after real-life R&B groups like The Supremes. Joan Anderson lives in Brooklyn and came to Syracuse to play Lorel Robinson, the youngest and most bright-eyed member of the group. “It’s three young ladies who have a dream and they go on a journey to obtain it," Anderson said. The students are on their own journeys. They attend schools in the Syracuse City School District and get the Redhouse experience through the Hillside Agency, which offers cradle-to-career services in youth development. Anderson said it has been a great experience watching the students grow. “A lot of theSyracuse high school students learn life lessons performing in Redhouse's 'Dreamgirls'http://wrvo.org/post/syracuse-high-school-students-learn-life-lessons-performing-redhouses-dreamgirls
81848 as http://wrvo.orgSat, 12 Dec 2015 12:49:48 +0000Syracuse high school students learn life lessons performing in Redhouse's 'Dreamgirls'Leah LandryThe deadline to purchase tickets for Mary Poppins at the Merry-Go-Round Playhouse has passed. Thanks to everyone who decided to attend. Enjoy the show! Let's go fly a kite with Mary Poppins at a live performancehttp://wrvo.org/post/lets-go-fly-kite-mary-poppins-live-performance
54775 as http://wrvo.orgThu, 24 Apr 2014 16:30:18 +0000Let's go fly a kite with Mary Poppins at a live performanceEllen Abbott It’s not every day you come across a lost play from a master of 16th century literature. But that’s what happened to a professor at Syracuse University’s department of languages, literatures and linguistics. Alejandro Garcia-Reidy, an assistant professor of Spanish at SU, was studying plays from 16th and 17th century Spain, when he came across documents that indicated there was a lost play written by Lope de Vega, one of Spain’s great authors of that era. When he found a play with the same name in a catalog at the Spain’s National Library in Madrid, he put the pieces together."On the one hand, I was able to identify the handwriting of the person who had copied the manuscript that we have, and it turned out it was the head of the same company we know had performed the play around 1614-1615,” said Garcia-Reidy. “And at the same time, I analyzed the style, the type of verses used in the play, and they all fit the way this playwright was writing plays around 16-13-1614.”And that wasThe play's the thing SU professor discovershttp://wrvo.org/post/plays-thing-su-professor-discovers
50732 as http://wrvo.orgSat, 01 Feb 2014 13:48:37 +0000The play's the thing SU professor discoversGrant ReeherWhat function do staged plays serve in our society? A critical one for civilization itself, argues Tim Bond in this week's edition of the Campbell Conversations. Tim Bond on the Campbell Conversationshttp://wrvo.org/post/tim-bond-campbell-conversations
39039 as http://wrvo.orgSun, 19 May 2013 22:30:26 +0000Tim Bond on the Campbell Conversations